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RFC 1446 - 6.3.1. Clock Monotonicity Mechanism

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### 6.3.1. Clock Monotonicity Mechanism

By pairing each sequence of a clock's values with a unique key, the protocols partially realize goal 3, and the conjunction of this property with assumption 6 above is sufficient for the claim that, with respect to a specific private key value, all local notions of a party's authentication clock are, in general, non-decreasing with time.

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RFC 1446 - 6.3.1. Clock Monotonicity Mechanism